pecten/kteis

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 46068
Date: 2006-09-14

Could this reconstructed word for "comb" be a nice PIE
one? It comes from the *pek^- "to comb", *pekû-
"sheep, small cattle", but I don´t understand the
suffix.

Latin pecten < *pek^ten-, *pek^tN
Greek kteis < *pk^ten-s-

Joao SL



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